And that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that da…

Barack Obama
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And that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that day: that her faith in justice and rationality was misplaced, that we couldn't overcome after all, that all the education and good intentions in the world couldn't help you plug up the holes in the universe or give you the power to change its blind, mindless course. ✨ Barack Obama (2007). Dreams From My Father, p.96, Canongate Books
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